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Same Terrorist, Two Death Announcements — And The State Says “Trust Us This Time”?

Nigeria’s Presidency has announced the killing of ISWAP commander Abu-Bilal al-Minuki in a joint operation involving Nigerian security forces and international partners in the...

Middle East Conflict: The Reality in Nigeria

The US and Israel are on one side. Iran is on the opposite side. Tempers are flaring. There are irreconcilable differences. Accusations and counter...

US, Israel, and Iran: Nigeria’s Hypocritical Culture

Hypocrites are subliminal enemies to humanity. They are everywhere – in churches, mosques, communities, and work environments. They usually present a misleading façade, sometimes...

Trump should be a wake-up call!

President Donald Trump of the United States of America is a creation of time. The key point is not in changing America. Instead, Trump...

Deep-State Conspiracy or Political Paranoia? The Truth Behind Claims of CIA and USAID’s Role in Trump’s Impeachment

Rumors have been swirling about an alleged deep-state plot involving USAID and the CIA in the impeachment of former President Donald Trump. The claims...

China’s Tech Dominance is Shaking the World!

In an age where Silicon Valley has long been considered the pinnacle of innovation, China is rewriting the global tech narrative with jaw-dropping breakthroughs...

The Hazards of Assad’s Fall

The Fall of Assad can best be described as a perfect storm of Internal and External Pressures from global power players! Therefore, after over a...

Legalize or Leave Russia: Implications of Putin’s Sweeping Immigration Order

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a sweeping decree requiring all illegal immigrants in the country to legalize their status or leave by April...

Europe Enters A New Era As Ukraine Ends Russian Gas Transit To The EU

In a landmark move that signals a profound shift in European energy politics, Ukraine has ceased the transit of Russian natural gas to the...

Putin: The Great Adversary or a Pawn in America’s Geopolitical Chessboard?

In today’s volatile world order, President Vladimir Putin is often hailed as the most significant threat to the United States’ global supremacy. With Russia’s...

The Global Arms Race: Profit, Power, and Perpetual Conflict

In an increasingly polarized world marked by ongoing tensions and conflict, the global arms industry stands at the heart of this unrest, both profiting...

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Charles Taylor – The Guest And His Host

Nigeria must resist not only the symbolism of harbouring Mr. Taylor in exile. As a nation, it is time to show leaders like him that not a single country would grant respite to them. By granting Asylum to the former Liberian President, we are encouraging another Charles Taylor in Africa...

Insider, Outsider: A Meditation on life in America

Life can be unkind here, sometimes. So it is everywhere else in the world, you may say. But in America, it is especially. We come here, compared to other places, dreaming of possibility. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses…,” the statue of liberty, beckons.    Then we face reality...

Some June 12, For Sure!

June 12, 1993 was that almost impossible day in the horizon of a country that had been written off as a colonially-induced tragedy of the worst kind; a date that happened, as they say in football, against the run of play...

Congratulations, Mr. Obasanjo

Where there is a need to grant Kudos to Mr. Obasanjo; where it is appropriate to accept that he has grown in stature greater than any Nigerian living or dead, let us grant it to him...

Peter Obi, Akunyili and Political Folly

It’s sad to see how Governor Peter Obi of Anambra has made himself a bewildering figure. That a man whose political stock was once solid would so abjectly fail to rise to people’s expectations is – there’s no other way to put it – a matter of profound tragedy...

Ode To Emeka – Poet, Songster And Husband

Emeka dead? Emeka? What happened? Why? How? God, Why? These were the initial questions that made my heard swim around and around... This could not be. This na the guy wey im voice I hear only yesterday!!! 

Let us reform or disband this NTA

NTA is an open wound that hurts millions of Nigerians within and beyond the shores of Nigeria and it needs urgent healing; there is no other way of saying it, this NTA as it stands today needs to be either thoroughly reformed or completely disbanded...

PDP’S Madhouse: A Sign of Hope for Nigeria

Since time immemorial, Nigerians have cried to God for vindication and intervention in the affairs of the country, and the rescue of the nation from the strong forces of opportunists called politicians...

From Empowerment To Survival: Are We Setting The Bar Too Low For Nigerian Women?

By any measure, Nigeria is facing one of its...

ABSU and its absurd dress code

Prof Mkpa, who for many years was the university’s orator, shocked the new and old students the other day when he reeled out a set of dress code, reminiscent of the famed Babylonian king, Hammurabi....